And now to StoryCorps San Joaquin, a series based on our collaboration with the personal history project Storycorps. In this edited conversation from February's 2020 mobile tour in Bakersfield, 15-year-old Emily Gorospe interviews her mother Valerie Gorospe about her grandmother, Teresa De Anda.
De Anda became a fierce environmental justice advocate after a pesticide drift poisoned people in the town of Earlimart in 1999. Valerie starts by describing what De Anda called The Big Accident.